54 blood, ye have not life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life; and him I 55 will raise up at the last day. For my flesh is truly1 food, 56 and my blood is truly1 drink. He that eateth my flesh, 57 and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; 58 so he likewise that eateth me, shall live by me. This is the

bread which came down from heaven: not as [your] fathers ate and died. He that eateth of this bread, shall live 59 for ever." He said these things in a synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

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Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard him, 61 said, "This is hard doctrine: who can understand it?" But when Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at 62 this, he said unto them, "Do ye revolt at this? What then if ye shall see the Son of man going up where he was be63 fore*? It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing : the words which I speak unto you, they are spirit, 1 Or, true, Mss. 2 manna, R. T. and N. 3 the synagogue, N. 4" Doth this cause you to offend?" N. See Wakefield. 5 Or, which I have spoken, Mss.

This text is generally understood of a local ascent to a place from whence there had been a previous local descent. But this interpretation is not necessary, nor does it well suit the connexion. To ascend where he was before, is, as all interpreters agree, to ascend to heaven. But this phrase, as applied to the Son of man, means nothing more than "searching into the truths of God;" a sense in which Dr. Doddridge says that the phrase " ascending into heaven” is plainly used in many other places, and which indeed no one disputes. See ch. iii. 13, with Raphelius's and Doddridge's notes. The proper meaning there. fore of this passage seems to be this: Do ye revolt at what I have now said? What then would you do if I should advance still further into the subject of my mission, and reveal truths which would be still more remote from your appre hension, and more offensive to your prejudices? See ch. xvi. 12. Mr. Simpson gives the following interpretation: "Nevertheless, when ye shall see the Son of man rise up where he was before, ye will know that he is the spirit that giveth life."

+ These words are a caution to his hearers not to understand his expressions literally but figuratively, q. d. The spiritual and figurative sense of my words is the only useful sense. If it were possible for you literally to feed upon my flesh, it would do you no good. I am not speaking of a natural life, supported by eating my flesh, but of a spiritual life, supported by my doctrine. See Bishop Pearce,

6 and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were 65 that believed not, and who was to deliver him up.). Then he said, "For this cause I said unto you, that none can come unto me, unless it be given unto him by [my] Father."

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From that time many of his disciples went back, and 67 walked no more with him. Jesus therefore said to the 68 twelve, "Will ye also depart?" Simon Peter1 answered

him, "Master, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words 69 of everlasting life: and we believe, and know, that thou art 70 the Holy One of God." [Jesus] answered them, “Have

not I chosen you twelve? and yet one of you is a false ac71 cuser3." Now he spake of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for he was about to deliver him up, [being] one of

the twelve.

CH. VII. And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to 2 kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, called the feast of ta3 bernacles, was near. His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea; that thy disciples also 4 may see the works which thou doest. For no man doeth any thing in secret, and yet he himself seeketh to be known publicly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world." 5 (For neither did his brethren believe in him.) [Then] Je6 sus saith unto them, "My time is not yet come: but your 7 time is always ready. The world cannot hate you; but me 8 it hateth, because I testify of it that its works are evil. Go ye up to [this] feast: I go not up to this feast; for my time 9 is not yet fully come." When he had said these words unto 10 them, he still remained in Galilee. But when his brethren had gone up, then he also went up to the feast; not openly, 11 but as it were in secret. Then the Jews sought him at the 12 feast, and said, "Where is he?" And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: and some 'S. Peter therefore, R. T. 2 that thou art the Christ, the son of the living God, R. T. 3 Gr, a devil. 4 yet, R. T. now, N.

said, "He is a good man:" 'others said, "No: but he 13 deceiveth the people." However, no man spake openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

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But when it was now about the midst of the feast, Jesus 15 went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews wondered, saying, "How hath this man learning, having never 16 been taught?" Therefore Jesus answered them and said, 17 "My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me. If any man desire to do his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, 18 whether it be from God, or whether I speak of myself. Whoever speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but whoever seeketh his glory who sent him, he is true, and un19 righteousness is not in him. Did not Moses give you the

law; and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why seek ye 20 to kill me?" The multitude answered and said, "Thou 21 hast a demon: Who seeketh to kill thee?" Jesus answered and said unto them, "I have done one work, and ye all 22 wonder at it. Moses gave you circumcision; (not that it

is from Moses, but from the fathers*;) and ye on the sab23 bath circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath receive cir

cumcision, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry with me, because I made a man altogether well 24 on the sabbath? Judge not according to appearance; but 25 judge righteous judgement." Then some inhabitants of Je26 rusalem said, "Is not this he whom they seek to kill? but, lo, he speaketh boldly; and nothing is said unto him. Do 27 the rulers know indeed that this is the Christ? However, we know whence this man is: but, when Christ cometh, 28 none knoweth whence he is *." Then Jesus cried out in "wonder.

3 Or,

1 but others, R. T. 2 R. T. and N. omit "Therefore."
Concerning this matter, Moses," &c. Compare the Greek with Mark vi. 6.;
Rev. xvii. 7: supposing the stop placed after din rura. N. 4 These words have
the appearance of a marginal annotation inserted in the text. N. 5 the very
Christ? or, truly Christ? R. T.

It was a tradition of the Jews, that after the Messiah was born he would be conveyed away and miraculously concealed till Elias came to reveal and anoint him. See Whitby in loc. This tradition seems to be alluded to, Matt. Kii, 38; xvi, 1. Mark viii, 11. Luke xi. 10. Matt. xxiv, 3, 30,

the temple, as he taught, saying1, "Do ye both know me, and know whence I am? and yet I am not come of myself, 29 but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not. I know 30 him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me."

Then the Jews sought to apprehend him: yet no man laid hands on 31 him, because his hour was not yet come. But many of the

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multitude believed in him, and said, "When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than [these] which this man hath done?"

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring such things about him; and the Pharisees and the chief-priests 33 sent officers to apprehend him. Jesus therefore said*, 66 Yet a little time longer I shall be with you; and then I 34 shall go to him who sent me. Ye will seek me, and will not find me; and where I shall be3, thither ye cannot come. 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? will he go to the 36 dispersed Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What words are these which he said, 'Ye will seek me, and will not find me: and where I shall be, thither ye cannot come?'"

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Now on the last day, which is the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If any man thirst, let 38 him come to me and drink. He who believeth in me, as the scripture hath said, from his belly shall flow rivers of living 39 water." (Now he spake this of the spirit, which those who believe in him were to receive: for the [holy] spirit was 40 not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.) Many

of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, 41 said, "In truth this is a prophet." Others said, "This is

the Christ." [But] others said, "Doth the Christ come 42 out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, that the Christ cometh of the offspring of David, and from the town of

'Gr. teaching and saying. Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am. N. See Doddridge, Campbell, Wakefield. 3 But I know, R. T. and N, 4 said

to them, R. T. 5 whither I go, Mss,

43 Bethlehem, where David was ?" So there was a division 44 among the multitude because of him. And some of them desired to apprehend him: but none laid hands on him.

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Then the officers came to the chief-priests and Pharisees; who said unto them, "Why have ye not brought him?" 46 The officers answered, "Never man spake like this man." 47 Then the Pharisees answered them, "Are ye also deceived? 48 Hath any one of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in 49 him? but this multitude, who know not the law, are ac50 cursed." Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus 51 by night, being one of them,) "Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doeth?" 52 They answered and said unto him, "Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see, that a prophet is not to arise from Galilee."

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[Then every man went to his own house: but Jesus went CH. VIII. to the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; 3 and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and the

Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery: and when 4 they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, " Teacher', 5 this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: 6 what then sayest thou?" Now they said this, trying him; that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus 7 stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. But when they continued asking him, he raised himself up, and said unto them, "Let him that is without sin among you, first 8 cast a stone at her." And he again stooped down, and wrote

1 Master, N.

This paragraph concerning the woman taken in adultery was not inserted in the Alexandrian (see Woide's Preface), and is wanting in the Vatican, Ephrem, and other manuscripts of great authority, and in the oldest copies of the Syriac version, and is not cited by Origen, Chrysostom, and other ancient ecclesiastical writers. It is found in the Cambridge manuscript, but with some variations; and though not removed out of the text by Griesbach, it is marked by him as very probably spurious.